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Intracellular localization of the HCS2 gene products in identified snail neurons in vivo and in vitro.

Abstract：

:1. The HCS2 (Helix command specific 2) gene expressed in giant command neurons for withdrawal behavior of the terrestrial snail Helix lucorum encodes a unique hybrid precursor protein that contains a Ca-binding (EF-hand motif) protein and four small peptides (CNP1-CNP4) with similar Tyr-Pro-Arg-X aminoacid sequence at the C terminus. Previous studies suggest that under conditions of increased intracellular Ca(2+) concentration the HCS2 peptide precursor may be cleaved, and small physiologically active peptides transported to the release sites. In the present paper, intracellular localization of putative peptide products of the HCS2-encoded precursor was studied immunocytochemically by means of light and electron microscopy. 2. Polyclonal antibodies against the CNP3 neuropeptide and a Ca-binding domain of the precursor protein were used for gold labeling of ultrathin sections of identified isolated neurons maintained in culture for several days, and in same identified neurons freshly isolated from the central nervous system. 3. In freshly isolated neurons, the gold particles were mainly localized over the cytoplasmic secretory granules, with the density of labeling for the CNP3 neuropeptide being two-fold higher than for the calcium-binding domain. In cultured neurons, both antibodies mostly labeled clusters of secretory granules in growth cones and neurites of the neuron. The density of labeling for cultured neurons was the same for both antibodies, and was two-fold higher than for the freshly isolated from the central nervous system neurons. 4. The immunogold particles were practically absent in the bodies of cultured neurons. 5. The data obtained conform to the suggestion that the HCS2 gene products are transported from the cell body to the regions of growth or release sites.

journal_name

Cell Mol Neurobiol

journal_title

Cellular and molecular neurobiology

authors

Ivanova JL,Leonova OG,Popenko VI,Ierusalimsky VN,Korshunova TA,Boguslavsky DV,Malyshev AY,Balaban PM,Belyavsky AV

doi

10.1007/s10571-006-9025-0

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2006-03-01 00:00:00

pages

127-44

issue

eissn

0272-4340

issn

1573-6830

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Intracellular localization of the HCS2 gene products in identified snail neurons in vivo and in vitro.